“I don’t believe the South would have gone along with that... Can YOU name a country that OUTLAWED slavery BEFORE the United States?”
England. Start with that.
Lots of fits and starts ending the horror... Totally outlawed is still debatable...
1102 Flag of Basse-Normandie.svg Norman England The Council of London bans the slave trade.
1569 England An English court case involving Cartwright, who had brought a slave from Russia, is said—on the basis of a summary written more than a century later—to have ruled slavery illegal in England, but appears to have been more about the nature of legally acceptable punishment than slavery per se, and certainly did not soon become a recognized precedent for outlawing slavery as slaves continued to be bought and sold in Liverpool and London markets without legal hindrance into the 18th century. See the article “Slavery at common law”.
1706 England In Smith v. Browne & Cooper, Sir John Holt, Lord Chief Justice of England, rules that “as soon as a Negro comes into England, he becomes free. One may be a villein in England, but not a slave.”[39][40]
1772 England Somersett’s case rules that no slave can be forcibly removed from England.ng the conditions on British slave ships enacted.
1788 Great Britain Sir William Dolben’s Act regulating the conditions on British slave ships enacted.
1805 United Kingdom A bill for abolition passes in House of Commons but is rejected in the House of Lords.
United Kingdom Slave trading made a felony punishable by transportation for both British subjects and foreigners.
1823 United Kingdom The Anti-Slavery Society is founded.
1834 United Kingdom The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 comes into force, abolishing slavery throughout most of the British Empire but on a gradual basis over the next six years.[85] Legally frees 700,000 in the West Indies, 20,000 in Mauritius, and 40,000 in South Africa. The exceptions are the territories controlled by the East India Company and Ceylon.[86]